Have a friend who registered himslef for Income Tax on 01.01.2009. Income Tax Returns for '09 & '10 are still outstanding. He did not register for VAT. He had a small turnover in 2009 but in 2010 secured a big contract and had sales to the UK of GBP170,000. Made very little profit as income was spent on goods and services from the UK. I have told him there may be a potential VAT problem.
Can he backdate the VAT registration and put the invoices through a 0%. Can he reclaim the UK VAT incurred?
Event management/organiser. He organised/promoted a few major events in the UK. Paid for hotels,car hire etc to run the event and then invoiced for these thus incurring UK V.A.T.
However as the total of the services exceeds the registration threshold for VAT in the UK which is £73000 you will have to register for UK VAT and pay over the VAT due to them at the relavent UK VAT rate. You should also be able to reclaim all the UK VAT incurred however you should get professional advise on the UK VAT issues.